Her rise to fame and many transformations, though, will never be forgotten.
And I have been trying to make up for that fact ever since.
My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood.
This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention, an audience."
I was a clumsy-looking and intensely awkward, insecure girl,“Fisher wrotein her memoir.
In her autobiography,Wishful Drinking, she talks about starting tosmoke pot at age 13.
From there, she expanded into other drugs, including painkillers.
“You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses?
Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.”
And I always wanted to feel better.”
From the first film [Star Wars], she was just a soldier, front line and center.
The only way they knew to make the character strong was to make her angry.
InReturn of the Jedi, she gets to be more feminine, more supportive, more affectionate.
But let’s not forget that these movies are basically boys' fantasies.
If I were trying to get a good table, I wouldn’t say I wrotePostcards.
Princess Leia will be on my tombstone."
She was 19 at the time and Ford was 33, married, and had two children.
I don’t think it is that surprising."
In her book,The Princess Diarist, Fisher included the written diaries.
They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication."
They divorced less than a year later.
It was after this that they broke up for good.
It was at this same time that she started distancing herself from her mother.
Ina joint interviewonThe Oprah Winfrey Show, Fisher said “I didn’t want to be around her.
I did not want to be Debbie Reynolds' daughter.”
“It was total estrangement.
She didn’t talk to me for probably 10 years… That was the most difficult time of all.
Very heart breaking,” said Reynolds in that same interview.
Fisher’s screenwriting worked also includedfixing and polishing scriptsfrom other writers into brilliant works.
Some of the more notable films she worked on includeSister Act, HookandThe Wedding Singer.
“I’m inHookwith George [Lucas] we’re extras, because I rewrote that.
That was my first rewrite.
We get pulled up in the air kissing.
I forget what scene it is.
Go look it up somewhere.
It’s under ‘weirdness,'” she saysin an interview.
She raised me to not think of men and women as different.
She raised me without gender.
It’s kind of the reason she named me Billie.
It’s not about being a strong woman it’s about being a strong person.
She once told me, ‘I never sat you down with a credo.
It was more about leading by example.'"
“Even in space, there’s a double standard,” said Fisher ina 2016 interviewwith Stephen Colbert.
Well, clearly I’ve broken that contract."
“We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane.
It’s never ‘How are you?’
or ‘You seem happy!"’
Fisher said inan interviewwithGood HousekeepingUK.
As it would turn out, Reynolds would pass away the day after Fisher.
She expressed how much she loved my sister.
She then said she really wanted to be with Carrie.
In those precise words, and within 15 minutes from that conversation, she faded out.
Within 30 minutes, she technically was gone.”
May the force be with her
Rest peacefully, dear princess.
Your presence is missed.
